By bahodir rustamov contents: Tenses

LESSON 2. PAST SIMPLE
Structure:
P: S+Ved/V2… We played football yesterday. My brother made a cake last night.
N: S+didn’t+V… We didn’t play football yesterday. My brother didn’t make a cake last night.
Sh.A.Q: Did+S+V…? Did you play football yesterday? Did your brother make a cake yesterday?
Yes, S(p)+did. Yes, we did. Yes, he did.
No, S(p)+ didn’t No, we didn’t. No, he didn’t.
Q: Q.W.+did+S+V…? When did you play football? What did your brother make?

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  The Past Simple is used to talk about past actions which happened at a definite time in the past:
  

We went to a restaurant last night.

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  The Past Simple is used to tell about past usual actions:
  

We had breakfast in the garden when I was a child.

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  The Past Simple is used to talk about people who are no longer alive:
  

Alisher Navoiy lived in Khirat.

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  The Past Simple is used to talk about actions which started at the said time in the past:
  

I did my homework at 8 yesterday evening. (I started at 8.)

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  The Past Simple is used to tell past actions in chronological order:
  

Yesterday, I went to Tashkent, I bought some fruit and went to visit my granny.

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  For past usual actions we can also use “used to” or “would”:
  

We used to have breakfast in the garden when I was a child. We would have milk and bread.

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  We can also use “used to” for past usual states:
  

There used to be a big tree in the garden.

IRREGULAR VERBS

Base form Past Simple Past participle Be was/were Been Beat beat Beaten Become became Become Begin began Begun Bend bent Bent Bite bit Bitten Blow blew Blown Break broke Broken Bring brought Brought Build built Built Buy bought Bought Can could been able Catch caught Caught Choose chose Chosen Come came Come Cost cost Cost Cut cut Cut Dig dug Dug Do did Done Draw drew Drawn Dream dreamed/dreamt dreamed/dreamt Drink drank Drunk Drive drove Driven Eat ate Eaten Fall fell Fallen Feed fed Fed Feel felt Felt Fight fought Fought Find found Found Fit fit Fit Fly flew Flown Forget forgot Forgotten Forgive forgave Forgiven Freeze froze Frozen Get got Got Give gave Given Go went been/gone Grow grew Grown Hang hanged/hung hanged/hung Have had Had Hear heard Heard Hide hid Hidden Hit hit Hit Hold held Held Hurt hurt Hurt Keep kept Kept Kneel knelt Knelt Know knew Known Lay laid Laid Lead led Led Learn learned/learnt learned/learnt Base form	Past Simple	Past participle
leave	left	left
lend	lent	lent
Let	let	let
Lie	lay	lain
light	lighted/lit	lighted/lit
lose	lost	lost
make	made	made
mean	meant	meant
meet	met	met
must	had to	had to
pay	paid	paid
put	put	put
read /ri:d/	read /red/	read /red/
ride	rode	ridden
ring	rang	rung
rise	rose	risen
run	ran	run
say	said	said
see	saw	seen
sell	sold	sold
send	sent	sent
set	set	set
shake	shook	shaken
shine	shone	shone
shoot	shot	shot
show	showed	shown
shut	shut	shut
sing	sang	sung
sink	sank	sunk
Sit	sat	sat
sleep	slept	slept
slide	slid	slid
speak	spoke	spoken
spend	spent	spent
spoil	spoiled/spoilt	spoiled/spoilt
spread	spread	spread
stand	stood	stood
steal	stole	stolen
stick	stuck	stuck
swim	swam	swum
take	took	taken
teach	taught	taught
tear	tore	torn
tell	told	told
think	thought	thought
throw	threw	thrown
understand	understood	understood
wake	woke	woken
wear	wore	worn
win	won	won
write	wrote	written